Between the Covers

Unbound. Large broadside extra. Measuring 23" x 27½". Text in nine columns, printed recto only. Old folds, a few tiny pinholes at the folds and tiny edge tears, a bit of foxing, a nice very good or better example. The final 1¼ columns filled with news stories, mostly political, and the poem "The Bride's Dream" by J. E. Carpenter (reprinted from *Bentley's Magazine*).

Noah Davis (1818-1902), a Republican, was running for Congress to represent New York's 28th District, to replace Lewis Sulye who was not running for reelection. Davis' speech addresses the negative effects of the Democratic Party on the Reconstruction Acts, and takes to task the Democratic nominee for President, Horatio Seymour, who was opposing Ulysses S. Grant in the 1868 election.
Davis was elected to Congress in 1868 and served until July 1870, when Grant appointed him U.S. District Attorney for Southern New York. He later served as a justice on the New York Supreme Court, presiding over the trials of William H. "Boss" Tweed, sentencing him to 12 years for embezzlement and interfering with municipal elections (cf. *DAB*). The *Orleans American* was a weekly, published in Albion, New York, from 1832 to 1943 (the final 33 years under the title *Orleans American and Weekly News*).

A large, handsome, Reconstruction-era New York political broadside. Seemingly not recorded separately by *OCLC*.

Item #623307